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Robot soccer educational courses

Robot soccer is an international project intended to promote computer sciences, robotics, electronics and other related fields due to increasing demand for the properly educated engineers in these fields. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. An idea of robot soccer and robot soccer league turned out as a great success in popularization of robotics and AI but also the other fields such as mechanical engineering and electronics. Practical courses for the undergraduate and graduate students can be domain – focused towards a particular research field such as intelligent agents, computer vision, etc. During the courses students are either constructing the robots, developing software for the robots or doing the both things, usually divided into different research teams. Anyhow, they are presented with the real-life problems and have the opportunity to work on challenging project that has a motivating goal. Although the practical courses for the university students are the most obvious choice because of generally high prerequested domain knowledge, children in elementary and secondary schools (K-12) are also targeted audience because of the need for the early days popularization of the technical sciences in order to provide better and more massive input in the faculties oriented towards technical sciences. Different age groups requires an adaptive and modular approach and this was the main idea behind the concept that will be presented here. A practical courses for three age groups has been developed: - younger K-12 school children (ages 13-15). - senior K-12 school children (ages 15-18). - university students (ages > 18). In this chapter, different modules incorporated in the practical courses are explained and curriculum, aims and tasks for each course level is described. The attention is focused on the modules integration. As a basis for the proposed constructive education courses, development of cheap and simple robots for the robot soccer team is explained in detail. Development of the skills needed in the mechanical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering and computer science and solving of the real life, practical problems results with a new quality in education of the target audience.

robot soccer, education, K12, modular approach

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